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The City of Richardson’s 22nd
annual Wildflower! Arts and Music Festival, North Texas’ largest music
festival, announces that tickets are now on sale for the award-winning event. Three-day passes can be purchased online at www.wildflowerfestival.com and also at Metroplex Tom Thumb stores for $30 through 5:30 p.m. on Friday, May 16.

Single-day adult tickets are $20 and are available at the gates
or online at the festival’s website beginning today.
Kids 5-12 tickets are $3, and children four and under have free entry.

The festival will be held on May 16-18, 2014. The award-winning, multi-day
eclectic arts and music festival draws local and national acts performing
the best in classic rock, R&B, country, funk, pop, alt-rock, folk and Americana.

Several ticket promotions are available for Wildflower attendees - Kids 12 and
under get in free on Sunday with a paid adult, courtesy of Bank of America. And Sunday is also
half-price day – all adult tickets are only $10 courtesy of Cisco Systems.
Bringing your family and friends? If so, Wildflower has a 15 for $15 group ticket
promotion – purchase a block of 15 day passes for just $15 per ticket.

Major support for the 2014 festival provided by LegacyTexas Bank,
Bud Light, Methodist Richardson Medical Center, Blue Cross
Blue Shield of Texas, and the City of Richardson. For more
information about sponsorship opportunities, contact Robbie Hazelbaker
at 972-744-4316 or robbie.hazelbaker@cor.gov.
Media Note: For more information, please contact Geoff Fairchild,
special events manager for the City of Richardson, at 972-744-4583
or geoff.fairchild@cor.gov.

About Wildflower!The Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival began as a
small community event in 1993 held in a local park in northeast
Richardson, Texas. Twenty years later the festival has become the
premier music event in the area. Originally a community event
designed to celebrate the acres of wild flowers planted throughout
the city each spring, Wildflower! quickly “blossomed” when national
headlining entertainment was added after only the second year.
Growing crowds and subsequent logistical challenges lead the
event to its first move to the Greenway Corporate Office Park
at US 75 and Campbell Rd. Here the event was able to expand with
multiple stages, over 30 acres of arts, music, and family activities.
In 1998, the Wildflower Nights! Program was added, bringing an
additional weekend of concert-style entertainment to the event.
Wildflower Nights! featured evening concerts in an amphitheater
setting and the program quickly gained popularity as bigger and
better artists were added to the lineup each year. In 2013, more
than 60,000 attendees, ranging primarily from ages 25 to 54
attended the event

About the City of Richardson
With nearly 100,000 residents, the City of Richardson is widely recognized
for its commitment to excellence, its rich history and its bright future, all of
which make Richardson a smart choice for residents and businesses. Known
globally for its high-tech business leadership, the City of Richardson also offers
a high quality of life, diverse array of neighborhoods, convenient Metroplex
location, multi-modal transportation infrastructure and outstanding
City services. Richardson has been repeatedly recognized as one of the top Lonestar
places to live and work by the national media, and the City remains
dedicated to continuous improvement, as well as to the principles of open
government and two-way communications with residents. To learn more,
visit www.cor.net.